Shona Kelly Wray, Associate Professor of History (B.A. University of California at Davis, 1986; M.A. University of Colorado at Boulder, 1990; PhD University of Colorado at Boulder, 1999). Core faculty in Women's and Gender Studies. Medieval European social history, medieval and early Renaissance Italy, Black Death, women and family. I was a Fulbright student at the University of Bologna, Italy (1986-87) and fellow at the American Academy in Rome (2002-03). My research examines the social history of late medieval Italy, focusing on social responses to the Black Death, notarial culture and testaments, peace settlements and conflict resolution, women's property issues, and faculty families in Bologna.

My publications include Communities and Crisis: Bologna during the Black Death (Leiden: Brill, 2009), Across the Religious Divide: Women, Gender, and Law in the Wider Mediterranean (ca. 1300-1800), co-edited with Jutta Sperling  (NY: Routlege, 2010), and articles in book chapters and journals such as the Journal of Social History, Journal of Medieval History, Journal of Medieval Prosopography. I teach courses on the Black Death, gender and family in medieval and early modern Europe, Renaissance and Reformation Europe, and World History.